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<p class="verinfo">(PHP 5 < 5.1.0)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">fam_open</span> — <span class="dc-title">Open connection to FAM daemon</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="type">resource</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>fam_open</strong></span>
([ <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$appname</code></span>
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Opens a connection to the FAM service daemon.
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<code class="parameter">appname</code></dt>
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A string identifying the application for logging reasons
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Returns a resource representing a connection to the FAM service on success
or <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong> on errors.
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<li class="member"><span class="function"><a href="function.fam-close.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">fam_close()</a> - Close FAM connection</span></li>
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